Improvement issi cooking-stoves



J. L. TUCKER & L. C. DIMOND.

(looking Stoves No. 123,596. Patented Feb.13,1s72.

y u @D '//f JOHN L. TUCKER, OF LACONIA, AND LEWIS O. DIMOND, OF GILFORD,NEW

' HAMPSHIRE.

IMPROVEMENT I N COOKING-STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,596, dated February13, 1872; antedated January 25, 187:2.

To all uhom it may concern: v Be it known that we, JOHN L. TUCKER, ofLaconia, and LEWIS C. DIMOND, of Gilford, in

,the county ot Belknap, and in the State of New Hampshire, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Cooking-Stoves; and do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to theletters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specication.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementot' a cooking apparatus, as will be hereinafter more fully` set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which our inventionappertains to make and use the same, we will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, whichrepresents a longi- Ltudinal vertical section of vour cooking apover theoven 3 or it may be turned down so as.

to be out of iniluence. In the rear part is a short upright pipe, H, forcarrying ott' the smoke, and under the bottom of -the oven in the bottomplate is an aperture, I.l This apparatus is mainly designed for summercooking and baking. It can be run for about two hours with one peck ot'charcoal, and with sut'- icient heat for all necessaryspurposes, andvery little,.if any, heat escaping into the room. It

may be used with an ordinary cookingstove in two ways Remove the coverof an ordinary cooking-stove, and place the apparatus vwith bottomoutlet I over said hole, closing, the top outlet H, or close the bottomoutlet I, and placing the apparatus near the store let the pipe H enterthe stove or'chimney as desired. Having thus fully described curinvention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-'- The within described cookingapparatus, consisting of the tighttire-box A, movable back E, oven D, damper G, and outlets H I, allconstructed and arranged substantially as and for the purposes hereinset forth.

In testimony7 that we claim the foregoing, we

`have hereunto set our hands this 25th day of May, 187i.

' JOHN L. TUCKER..

LEwIs o. DIMoND.

Witnesses:

W. L. MELcnEn, Guns. H. CHESTER.

